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SOCCER PLAYER

Rashidi Yekini

1963 - 2012

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Rashidi Yekini (23 October 1963 – 4 May 2012) was a Nigerian professional footballer who played as a forward. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rashidi Yekini has received more than 874,586 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Rashidi Yekini is the 1,660th most popular soccer player (up from 2,319th in 2019), the 27th most popular biography from Nigeria (up from 30th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Nigerian Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 870k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.77

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Rashidi Yekini ranks 1,660 out of 16,880. Before him are Paco Bienzobas, Silvestre Igoa, Rodolpho Barteczko, Edmundo Piaggio, Paulo Autuori, and Charles Antenen. After him are Aritatsu Ogi, Miguel Ángel Lotina, Kálmán Mészöly, Josef Košťálek, Shizuo Miyama, and Ander Herrera.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Rashidi Yekini ranks 190. Before him are Conan O'Brien, James LaBrie, Rupert Graves, Richard Marx, Alessandra Martines, and Sam Childers. After him are Jensen Huang, Dave Legeno, Ian Wright, Elvira Nabiullina, Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė, and Glória Pires. Among people deceased in 2012, Rashidi Yekini ranks 213. Before him are Ignatius IV of Antioch, Mahmoud El-Gohary, Luis Alberto Spinetta, Mike Wallace, Gerry Anderson, and Xenia Stad-de Jong. After him are Davy Jones, Shukri Ghanem, Edvard Mirzoyan, Peter Carsten, William Windom, and James Farentino.

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In Nigeria

Among people born in Nigeria, Rashidi Yekini ranks 27 out of 236. Before him are Ernest Shonekan (1936), Yakubu Gowon (1934), C. Odumegwu Ojukwu (1933), Abdullah al-Thani (1954), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (1954), and Ibrahim Babangida (1941). After him are Amos Tutuola (1920), Bennet Omalu (1968), Murtala Mohammed (1938), Nana Asmaʼu (1793), Nwankwo Kanu (1976), and Nnamdi Azikiwe (1904).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Nigeria

Among soccer players born in Nigeria, Rashidi Yekini ranks 2. Before him are Jay-Jay Okocha (1973). After him are Nwankwo Kanu (1976), Tijani Babangida (1973), Kelechi Iheanacho (1996), Taribo West (1974), Emmanuel Amunike (1970), Obafemi Martins (1984), Daniel Amokachi (1972), Finidi George (1971), Sunday Oliseh (1974), and Victor Ikpeba (1973).

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